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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, asmadeus@codewreck.org, pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] x86/kvmclock: set offset for kvm unstable clock" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:12:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <155316314169253@kroah.com> (raw)


The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From b5179ec4187251a751832193693d6e474d3445ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:49:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] x86/kvmclock: set offset for kvm unstable clock

VMs may show incorrect uptime and dmesg printk offsets on hypervisors with
unstable clock. The problem is produced when VM is rebooted without exiting
from qemu.

The fix is to calculate clock offset not only for stable clock but for
unstable clock as well, and use kvm_sched_clock_read() which substracts
the offset for both clocks.

This is safe, because pvclock_clocksource_read() does the right thing and
makes sure that clock always goes forward, so once offset is calculated
with unstable clock, we won't get new reads that are smaller than offset,
and thus won't get negative results.

Thank you Jon DeVree for helping to reproduce this issue.

Fixes: 857baa87b642 ("sched/clock: Enable sched clock early")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
index e811d4d1c824..d908a37bf3f3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
@@ -104,12 +104,8 @@ static u64 kvm_sched_clock_read(void)
 
 static inline void kvm_sched_clock_init(bool stable)
 {
-	if (!stable) {
-		pv_ops.time.sched_clock = kvm_clock_read;
+	if (!stable)
 		clear_sched_clock_stable();
-		return;
-	}
-
 	kvm_sched_clock_offset = kvm_clock_read();
 	pv_ops.time.sched_clock = kvm_sched_clock_read;
 


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